Welcome to Jacksonville Green Source, your official one stop resource for green living in and around Jacksonville and Florida's First Coast. We offer a comprehensive business directory of Green Businesses, a calendar of local green events, links to green organizations, and a guide for Local, State, and Federal tax incentives and credits.
Some of the resources you will find on this site include local venders and providers of alternative and renewable energy sources, organic and locally grown foods, sustainable development and building, native plants and landscaping, biofuels, socially and environmentally responsible financial services and eco-tourism. We are also a directory of businesses providing environmentally friendly "stuff" and much much more................
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Jacksonville's First Certified Green Hotel
Being green is more than just flying a flag, putting up a sign or paying tribute to the color. Truly being green takes countless hours of hard work. The Green Road is much like the high road, there usually isn't very much traffic, but travel is not without its tolls.
Crowne Plaza is Jacksonville's first Certified Green Hotel by Florida Green Lodging - earning its one palm certification. This green hotel in Jacksonville is dedicated to conserving Florida's natural resources by water conservation, waste reduction, and energy efficiency.
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Sarah Boren, of the Green Team Project, works with individuals and business interested in becoming greener
Friday, November 14, 2008
Jacksonville Business Journal - by Marisa Carbone Finotti Correspondent
When Sarah Boren took over the Green Team Project in Jacksonville in late 2001, she admits the going was tough. There just were not a lot of people in Jacksonville back then thinking about being more environmentally friendly, she said.
That's no longer the case.
"There has been a huge shift in consciousness," said Boren, executive director of the Green Team Project, headquartered in the Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce's Small Business Center on Norwood Avenue.
Boren described her nonprofit organization as solutions-oriented. It helps residents and small businesses change their environmental behavior and become environmental stewards for a lifetime.
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TLC Engineering for Architecture
Friday, November 14, 2008
Jacksonville Business Journal - by Marisa Carbone Finotti Correspondent
You could say Mark Gelfo, principal and division director for TLC Engineering for Architecture's Jacksonville office, saw it coming.
Six years ago, Gelfo realized the green movement would be good for business as well as the environment. And he realized it would eventually hit Jacksonville.
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A few suggestions to green your life.
It's easy to jump on the green bandwagon, but this is not something new and trendy that will make us cool today. Being green is a way of life that many of our parents and grandparents embraced while we thought they were being cheap. Remember how they always turned out the lights and reused those paper bags until they were falling apart? If you don't then your Mom and Grandma were of the consumer mentality that became the norm in the second half of the 20th century. We are now having to re-adjust our thinking to remember our conservative roots. By conservative I'm not talking politics, but the need to be good stewards and conserve our resources.
Fortunately today's awareness of the need for sustainability along with new technology makes it easier for us to live an even greener life than our conservation minded forebearers. Architecture students are taught as part of their regular curriculum to use sustainable materials, take advantage of renewable energy sources, natural lighting, good site planning, and not waste products. "Green" developers not only use green building methods, but work with engineers and consultants on their site plans to save trees and native plants which require less watering and pesticides while incorporating better methods of drainage that do not cause excessive run-off such as pervious hardscape and driveway materials and rain gardens. . .
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